The Secretive Company Hawking Bad Health Advice On Facebook
The post The Secretive Company Hawking Bad Health Advice On Facebook appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Immuneering’s slow-and-steady approach to cancer fighting, litigation over vaccine limits, venture funding for digital health, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Illustration by Philip Smith for Forbes; Fanatic Studio/Getty Images In a roughly 57-minute video, a white-haired man in a checkered shirt sits in a blurred hallway. He speaks slowly: “With Donald Trump taking the White House and RFK Jr. now positioned to dismantle the uniparty’s corrupt FDA …. multibillion dollar drug conglomerates, some of Big Pharma’s oldest and most prominent, will be in a desperate race to flood our nation with poison.” The man urges “seniors like you and me” to join the online “Health Sciences Institute,” where they can learn about alleged “remarkable medical breakthroughs” that the government and pharmaceutical companies “have been intentionally hiding.” (The Institute’s website contains a disclaimer that its content should not be interpreted as personal medical advice.) The man’s video is one of many of longform advertisements produced by The Agora and its sprawling conglomerate of subsidiaries, which have spent decades cashing in on Americans’ growing distrust in government, financial institutions and healthcare providers. The Agora makes its money by selling subscriptions to “natural health” newsletters that are a vector for its wellness supplements business, as well as investment advice newsletters that can cost thousands of dollars a year. It says it is a “1.5bn+ company,” while the consumer protection group Truth in Advertising estimates it pulled in approximately $500 million in revenue in 2021. its subsidiaries pour millions each month into advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Agora-related channels have more than 100 million views on YouTube, and the company’s top-performing newsletters boast millions of subscribers. But a Forbes investigation into hundreds of Agora-linked ads and opaque social media accounts—and…
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In this week’s edition of InnovationRx, we look at Immuneering’s slow-and-steady approach to cancer fighting, litigation over vaccine limits, venture funding for digital health, and more. To get it in your inbox, subscribe here. Illustration by Philip Smith for Forbes; Fanatic Studio/Getty Images In a roughly 57-minute video, a white-haired man in a checkered shirt sits in a blurred hallway. He speaks slowly: “With Donald Trump taking the White House and RFK Jr. now positioned to dismantle the uniparty’s corrupt FDA …. multibillion dollar drug conglomerates, some of Big Pharma’s oldest and most prominent, will be in a desperate race to flood our nation with poison.” The man urges “seniors like you and me” to join the online “Health Sciences Institute,” where they can learn about alleged “remarkable medical breakthroughs” that the government and pharmaceutical companies “have been intentionally hiding.” (The Institute’s website contains a disclaimer that its content should not be interpreted as personal medical advice.) The man’s video is one of many of longform advertisements produced by The Agora and its sprawling conglomerate of subsidiaries, which have spent decades cashing in on Americans’ growing distrust in government, financial institutions and healthcare providers. The Agora makes its money by selling subscriptions to “natural health” newsletters that are a vector for its wellness supplements business, as well as investment advice newsletters that can cost thousands of dollars a year. It says it is a “1.5bn+ company,” while the consumer protection group Truth in Advertising estimates it pulled in approximately $500 million in revenue in 2021. its subsidiaries pour millions each month into advertising on Facebook and Instagram. Agora-related channels have more than 100 million views on YouTube, and the company’s top-performing newsletters boast millions of subscribers. But a Forbes investigation into hundreds of Agora-linked ads and opaque social media accounts—and…
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